192 LIFE AND WORK IN BENARES AND KUMAON. we should have starved, as the authorities, to prevent panic and to show a bold front, had laid in no provisions. This seems ver> unwise, and yet there is no doubt the bold front did much under God to effect our deliverance. In the morning of the Sunday after the mutiny the Rev. C B. Leupolt, of the Church Mission, preached on the parade ground. In the afternoon I was requested to preach. The soldiers, with their rifles in their hands, and the European inhabitants were my audience. I took for my text words which at once suggested themselves to my mind, " If God be for us, who can be against us ? " These words of the Apostle Paul, I was afterwards told, came fraught with strength to the hearts of some presenn On Sunday evening it began to be whispered that mutiny had broken out at Allahabad On Monday we knew all. The 6th N. I. Regiment, after professing in the afternoon their readiness to march to -Delhi and fight the rebels, in the evening rose, murdered sixteen officers, six of them young lads who had just'arrived, and all Europeans who came their way. Happily families were in the Fort, to which they had betaken themselves in opposition to the affectionate remonstrances of the native officers, who said it was a slur on then* fidelity ! The Sepoys plundered the Treasury; and it is said many of them were afterwards murdered by the villagers on account of the money with which they were laden. As the Sepoys entirely disappeared, and the city of Benares was quiet, though the country around was much disturbed, most of us after a time returned to our homes- In our own case we found that not one of our servants had decamped, and not a pin's worth had been stolen. The very night of the mutiny a servant picked up the few silver spoons we had left on the table, and at considerable